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Feedback Summary:
| Version 0.18b: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |  (4.5) |
Features: |  (3.5) |
Support: | (3.5) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | Not rated (0.0) |
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Tables - the lean Excel - Version: 1.4.6, 3/4/2009 02:31AM PST
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Jak T Rip
Excellent workhorse - Version: 1.4.6, 1/19/2009 07:22AM PST
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wlogon
Tables does an excellent job for what it says it does. Given that spreadsheet applications are complex by default this is the one I have no issues to report despite the lack of bells or whistles.
Almost brilliant. - Version: 1.4.5, 9/28/2008 05:42AM PST
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HerrFunken
As an alternative for Excel, Tables does a very good, if not excellent job of both producing, importing and exporting spreadsheets and Excel data. Where Tables really falls down is in its rather basic chart implementation. The chart function compared to that of Excel is very rudimentary, with virtually no customisation. If Tables really is to compete with the likes of Excel, and even Numbers for that matter, it really needs to improve, big time in this department.
Buy it- and write in to the developer!
Buy it- and write in to the developer!
Here is my experience:
Pro:
- opens most Excel files without problems
- opens up fast
- most handling is rather intuitive
- OSX native app
- good price
Con:
- has a strange own format that creates big files. These files take longer to save than exporting into Excel, but they open up quicker. I'd rather have no format change at command+s.
- Does not stick to all OSX hot keys. The most annoying is that command+< does not swap between windows but zooms your window. HEY! I bought tables, because I wanted to be fully in the OSX world!!
- _very_ slow scrolling when holding down mouse button on the up/down arrows. Also some other a actions are extremely slow (some are quick, though). Almost impossible to work on bigger files.
- is less user friendly than I expected from an OSX app. Sometime this is understandable, because tables needs to mimic how (badly) Excel works, but sometimes I'd expect more clever/slick/direct/customizable ways of improving productivity. For example, most of the every day functions are (like in excel) hidden in the menus. They can not be linked to hot keys and they can not be put into the GUI as a button. In general, the menus feel like Excel and not like OSX. We can do better than that!
Conclusion:
- Tables is the right way to go for simple every day spreadsheet tasks.
- For complex uses, you'll need Numbers and for full compatibility you'll need Excel or maybe OpenOffice.
- I think tables is the best choice for me and it is worth the money, but I couldn't say that I love it, because it is still away from the very high standards other OSX apps set.
I think that only very few things need to be enhanced in terms of usability/customizability/speed to make tables a true winner.